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Local hotli Unbrea ka ble frame Clear o r Polar ized lens Ven ted with foa m filte rs Tom Allen won th e Trailb ike Novice class with B. Fran z finishi ng second. A new class th is year is the Senior Divisio n. I saw quit e a few Se nior n umber pla tes Sund ay, b ut Dick Brecke r, th e steward for tha t class , fee ls a 10 1 mo re rid ers co uld take ad van tage of th is class . Dann y Klin e did , and ended up with a first. Second and third w en t t o Tom Widi ck and Bob McL au ghli n . 11,e Fo ur Aces members ha ve had lo ts of experie nce t h rowi ng desert races and so th in gs went prett y sm oothly . 'The o nly real problem th at arose was at the last check. Appare n tly a lot of rider s missed it, but the las t th ing I heard wa s th at en o ugh riders fo und it to ma ke it a . legal chec k . • Re sults in Resu lts Section. 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In th e 125 Ex pert main even t, So u th Ga te's Mike Minnig, wh o j ust ce leb ra t ed his 14th birth day, de feate d Mike Tidwe ll and Eddie La wso n . Minnig, who had t o finish beh ind T idw ell and Lawso n la tely, go t hi s revenge b y using the high groove per fectl y . Minn ig's rid ing style is mu ch like th at o f professional star Rex Beaucham p both are very spectacular th rough th e co rners. T he op posite sex th en moved in to th e spo tl igh t as 250 Am a teur Do rothy Row e , rid ing a YZ Yam ah a for Oakley's Yama ha in Oceanside , win ne r of her fou r-lap heat race , was th e favo rite in th e main . A t th e sta rt of th e feature Dave J oh nso n, rid ing fo r K & N , gra b bed th e lead aboard a Yam aha twin . Ho wever Do roth y , rid ing in the high groove, moved p ast J ohnson o n th e open ing lap . J ohnso n t ried to close th e gap o n Row e in the later stages of th e feature, but th e yo ung lad y racer was ab le to hold h er o wn. and cla im th e • victo ry . Results in Results Section . Malone twice M ....CM I N e;: S H OP A.N D Ie, ~Cycle EngIneerIng & Supply 114 0 ·A N . K R "' E M E ~ A NAI-I E I ~ . CA . 9 2 806 . ( 7 14 ) 6 30 ·~72 0 ~''''' '''.'''' , , " • WEST 802 6 F reest o ne Avenue Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 By Stewart B. Sapicoff O RANGE , CA L., JAN . 12 At t he dro p of th e gate, Bruc e . Ba r on (Yam ) took h is t r a d itio nal firs t pla c e start over t he r e s t of t he 250 P ros , but it w a s to b e a very sho rt lived lead . With in o ne lap h e lost his lead to th e likes of Morris Malone (Ma i), wh o was ridin g as though the devil hims elf was righ t beh ind him . As it tu rned o ut, n ot th e devil , but t he co m bine d fo rces . of Tom Rapp (Bu l) , J ohn DeSoto (Oss) , an d Mike Gillm an